AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ultraleap’s computer vision and machine learning models also enable low-cost hand-tracking integration for enterprise end users. Partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek provide the framework to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC launches Vive Flow headset for relaxation, priced at $499. After endless teasings and leaks, in the end, HTC has finally unveiled its headset: called Vive Flow, it is a lightweight device for media consumption. I send you good vibes so things go well for you too! Top news of the week.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Watch YouTube in VR with your friends, Google pours resources into shared social VR experiences, upcoming standalone headsets will be wireless, the Snapchat vs. Facebook continues, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WATCH YOUTUBE IN VR… WITH YOUR FRIENDS!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. This means that if you are in Google Earth VR in a green room where there is a friend of yours, you can see the city that you are visiting all around you, and the real image of your friend being there with you. This is so sad.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Shahram Izadi, Vice President of AR at Google , notes how Android ecosystem support will enable developers to collaborate with Samsung and Qualcomm to drive the future of immersive and spatial XR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. In my spare time, I enjoy training and running full marathons around the world and playing games on my PSVR. teams for Japan.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

The creative puzzler is made by Canada-based game-making couple Sarah and Colin Northway teaming with Radial Games’ Andy Moore, Kimberly Voll and Lindsay Jorgensen with sound by Gord McGladdery. It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. In some demanding games, this degradation is highly visible if you look with your eyes in a region that is close to the edge of the lenses. But that 10% of the time may be frustrating in some games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

They promise us wonderful connections between the digital and physical worlds, and games where we can chase cartoon characters through our own furniture. I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Above: CastAR wants you to play tabletop games in mixed reality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

VRTIFY offers concerts, clips and channels from bands including Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Florence and the Machine, Sting, Twenty One Pilots, and Of Monsters and Men. It’s available or in beta on most current headsets, including PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung GearVR and Google Cardboard. 3 (with 67 percent.)

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. Virtual Reality is used for entertainment purposes like games and in more serious fields, like healthcare. Learning Credit: Unsplash.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Just ask Vander Caballero, founder of Minority Media , creator of the VR game Time Machine VR. Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Since Beat Saber has been a huge hit, while most VR indie game studios are struggling to survive, he had a great idea: he decided to invest in some interesting indie VR projects. He said that it is his way of giving back to the VR community … and it is not a project of Beat Games, but a personal one. exits beta stage.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2020

For many parents and guardians this means learning to work from home while simultaneously keeping their families safe, happy, and healthy under quarantine. VR Gaming Fun for Everyone. and Baby Hands will get families playing games or sports they know and love in zany new ways – no tokens or sports gear required.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. ARCore   — ARCore is an AR SDK released by Google in 2018 for building augmented reality experiences. It can run on AR/VR hardwares.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. Alan: Yeah, I think that’s really key in learning. Labster is great, and also supported by Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. Alan: Yeah, I think that’s really key in learning. Labster is great, and also supported by Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can't help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. Alan: Yeah, I think that's really key in learning. Labster is great, and also supported by Google. Kai: I agree.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I will be speaking at that conference on the transformation of learning with XR. So it started mostly as people in gaming a few years ago and the entertainment side, and gradually is actually getting more and more focused on enterprise customers. We will also be discussing the findings of their 2019 XR industry report.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. SUPERDATA research for what concerns the mobile gaming market. You can find the original text in Mandarin here. Introduction.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I will be speaking at that conference on the transformation of learning with XR. So it started mostly as people in gaming a few years ago and the entertainment side, and gradually is actually getting more and more focused on enterprise customers. We will also be discussing the findings of their 2019 XR industry report.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

From zero gravity chambers to organic gaming consoles, Hollywood has been dreaming up some of the biggest and best ways to implement virtual reality for decades. To qualify the list, these movies had to be using technology with the goal of inducing presence, whether that be in a game world, dreamscape, or recording of reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. We saw the entire economy move online instantly. You, Alex, our VP of marketing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. We saw the entire economy move online instantly. You, Alex, our VP of marketing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He regularly advises Fortune 500 brands and Triple-A game publishers on how to succeed in the interactive media space. A sought-after authority on interactive media industry, Carter has presented at every event around the world, including Casual Connect, the LA Games Conference, and the VR/AR Global Summit. So, what is SuperData?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He regularly advises Fortune 500 brands and Triple-A game publishers on how to succeed in the interactive media space. A sought-after authority on interactive media industry, Carter has presented at every event around the world, including Casual Connect, the LA Games Conference, and the VR/AR Global Summit. So, what is SuperData?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

There wasn’t a different width interface or a spare interface provided , which puzzled me as the HTC Vive (a Valve collaboration) had shipped with both narrow and wide facial interfaces – the “wide” really a regular fit and the narrow for people with narrow faces. . Experiments with the Velcro cushion (Image by Immersive Computing).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He regularly advises Fortune 500 brands and Triple-A game publishers on how to succeed in the interactive media space. A sought-after authority on interactive media industry, Carter has presented at every event around the world, including Casual Connect, the LA Games Conference, and the VR/AR Global Summit. So, what is SuperData?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. We saw the entire economy move online instantly. You, Alex, our VP of marketing.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

There was a company called LAI Games, which has been around for decades. They build arcade games. And now this year there was another company called VRsenal, that had an arcade game cabinet with– that was a VR based that was unattended, and it was running Beat Saber, which is obviously one of the most popular games out there.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2017

This new metaverse is from Linden Lab, the same company that built Second Life– and they clearly have taken learnings from that open world to Sansar: namely, monetization opportunities for creators. The company was originally known as Vrse, and you probably know co-founder and CEO Chris Milk as the empathy machine guy.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

To learn more about the work he’s doing at Bose, you can visit developer.bose.com. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. Michael: I believe in XR as the empathy machine. Michael: Yay!

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

To learn more about the work he’s doing at Bose, you can visit developer.bose.com. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. Michael: I believe in XR as the empathy machine. Michael: Yay!

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